Beer: Ratings & Reviews

Reviews by lurpy1:

Pours a decent amber/orange, with a head that is suspsiciously white and BMC looking. Great lacing, coats the glass as the beer vanishes. Smell is pine, citrus, mild spice. The taste begins with a wallop of citrus and hop, finishes somewhat dry. A bit of alcohol burn in the mouth takes away from the finish.

Certainly a very good beer, but as a DIPA, not a huge wow factor. Recommended nevertheless.

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One of the best breweries in American alot of the stuff I cut my teeth on back in the day was from this great brewery.Poured into a standard pint glass a slight hazed burnt orange with a clingy 1/2 finger white head that had great lasting power.Aromas were of sweet alcohol and resiny hop,neither one stood out more than the other really.Big and sweet on the palate, the alcohol dipped fruit and caramel malt flavors really was more prevailing than the resiny hop.Like alot of DIPA's this is more sweet than hop driven,its a good beer but not what Iam lookin for,bummer.

Appearance  This one is deep, bright orange in color tinted with a bit of brown. The beer just looks gorgeous. There wasnt much of a head coming out of the growler, though.

Smell  The hops are classic East Coast (whatever the predominant hops are over there) and very pleasing. Theres also some good spicing and a solid, sweet malty base.

Taste  The malt base is large and full of brown sugars. The sweet fuggle-type of hops are huge and very smooth.

I can see how one could think that this is a lightweight because it doesnt have that gigantic, PacNW-stomping pine sap to it, but this is just as intense with the ingredients that they chose to use. This is a Double IPA by any standard of measure.

Mouthfeel  This one is smooth as silk and incredibly well-balanced. The life was long gone from the growler it came in otherwise I would have probably 5-ed the mouthfeel.

Drinkability  Big and smooth with a nice, satisfying dry finish. Whats not to like?

Served up in a GL stemmed glass at Oktoberfest. Nice appearance at a cloudy light peach with a thin but lasting white head. Hues lean toward orange. Very citric aroma and flavor but definitely under wraps a bit. Caramel shown through the hops. Not for hardcore hop heads. Sweetish, sugary flavor on top of the orangey hops. Juicy and sweet mouthfeel with a relatively bitter finish. Drinkability is really too high for this style. Basically, I liked this beer a ton but it certainly wasnt what I expected. The hops were one dimensional (huge citrus fruit) and the sugars were so high as to make the beer almost fruity as opposed to IPA like. Bitterness was present to be sure but it wasnt at the level of an average IPA let alone a DIPA. Conclusion, great beer but dont expect your typical Extreme DIPA. Perhaps these brewers should be commended for showing restraint in a time of giant beers.

I always look forward to have my first Lake Erie Monster of the year, I am not a big IPA fan but this beer here is not so over powering with Hops that I can't taste the other flavors. If your looking for a beer to get you were you need to be this is a great beer to start with.

12 oz bottle, best by 8/10/10. Pours a very hazy golden orange with a big creamy white head that retains and laces the glass.

The aroma is rather subdued - some bready malts and sugary melon with peppery hops and some sharp alcohol.

The flavor is sweet sugary caramel malts and some fruit followed by a big dank earthy hop bitterness that lingers in the aftertaste. The alcohol is noticeable and warming. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with creamy carbonation.

Overall, it's an OK DIPA. It's just not too balanced with the sugary sweetness clashing with a big dank bitterness.